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Description: | Broad, globular bellarmine bottle, with narrow foot and tall tapering narrow neck with moulded ribbed rim. Loop handle emerging from beneath neck rim with tapering lower terminal at shoulder (broken). Moulded bearded mask (Holmes type VIII) applied to neck opposite handle, with moulded circular medallion to waist below, containing floral rosette composed of three concentric bands of petals. Heavily pitted red-brown salt glaze, lower body grey with brown streaks to left of medallion. Small grey patch with glaze-free break mark on shoulder to left of medallion, probably from point of contact with another bottle or clay pad during firing.
Technique: thrown
Technique: applied relief
Technique: impressed
Technique: salt-glazed
Material: ceramics
Material: stoneware
bottle & bellarmine & bartmannkrug made in Frechen, Germany, Europe, 1600=1650 (circa), (1923.399). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.2631 | Go to resource |
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